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US President Donald Trump today condemned the Kansas shooting incident that led to the tragic death of an Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla in alleged hate crime. We speak to people in India's technology hub Hyderabad where virtually every family has a US connection.

Hundreds of students of the Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia march against the ABVP as the campus confrontation between different student groups flares up. Has the space to dissent and debate shrunk? We debate on Left, Right and Centre.

The latest GDP numbers defy expectations as even after the notes ban growth is pegged at 7 per cent. Though it is the slowest in eight quarters. Was the impact of the notes ban overestimated?

From violence on campus over seminars to the trolling of a young college student who criticised the student union ABVP and wants India-Pakistan peace - nationalism in India today has acquired a whole new dimension. We have to prove it all the time - on social media, on TV, in cinemas and, we are told, in our thoughts as well. What does nationalism mean? What does it mean to be a true patriot?

A family is tonight in great grief. Their son, also a brother, husband, 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an engineer from Hyderabad, was with his friend at a bar in Kansas when a man allegedly yelled "get out of my country" before shooting at them. Srinivas was killed. His friend has been released from hospital. A witness who tried to intervene, Ian Grillot, was shot, but is expected to survive the attack. The shooter was a 51-year-old navy veteran. Srinivas worked at an American multinational that makes GPS systems in Kansas. He joined the company in 2014. His wife, Sunayana works in a technology company in the area.

On a day that the BJP has made huge gains in the Maharashtra civic elections and the Sena fell well short of the majority 114 wards, we look at the implications of poll results for the country's richest civic body.

The Ramjas College campus at Delhi University is still tense after two days of clashes between student groups over an invitation to the JNU's Umar Khalid, the student who was charged with sedition last year, but is currently on bail. Now the Delhi Police are under fire after multiple accounts that they stood by and watched as the ABVP attacked other students and journalists. Did the police collude by looking the other way?

Delhi University's Ramjas College becomes a battleground with clashes between student groups over invitations to JNU students for a talk. As each side hurls bitter accusations, has the room for free, peaceful political debate, especially on our campuses shrunk? We debate on Left, Right and Centre.

It is the battle for the richest civic body in Asia but this time there are bigger implications. As Mumbai voted in the BMC elections today, how will the rift between former allies - the Shiv Sena and the BJP - play out? Is Devendra Fadnavis going to survive as chief minister if the Sena withdraws support? Or will the BJP make big gains at the Sena's expense? And in all the political bickering, have the real issues got sidelined in this crucial civic poll? We debate on Left, Right and Centre.

We are over a month into Donald Trump's presidency. What should India make of the new leader of the United States? Will he be good for India? Former Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer joins us on Left, Right and Centre.